Ciiap. XIX.] SEXUAL DIFFERENCES. 307 



not-distant archipelagoes of Tonga and Samoa are beard- 

 less ; but these men belong to distinct races. In the Ellice 

 group all the inhabitants belong to the same race ; yet on 

 one island alone, namely, Nunernaya, "the men have splen- 

 did beards ; " while on the other islands " they have, as a 

 rule, a dozen strasffflins: hairs for a beard." 17 



Throughout the great American Continent the men may 

 be said to be beardless ; but in almost all the tribes a few 

 short hairs are apt to appear on the face, especially during 

 old age. With the tribes of North America, Catlin esti- 

 mates that eighteen out of twenty men are completely des- 

 titute by nature of a beard ; but occasionally there may 

 be seen a man, who has neglected to pluck out the hairs at 

 puberty, with a soft beard an inch or two in length. The 

 Guaranys of Paraguay differ from all the surrounding 

 tribes in having a small beard, and even some hair on the 

 body, but no whiskers. 18 I am informed by Mr. 1). 

 Forbes, who particularly attended to this subject, that the 

 Aymaras and Quichuas of the Cordillera are remarkably 

 hairless, yet in old age a few straggling hairs occasionally 

 appear on the chin. The men of these two tribes have 

 very little hair on the various parts of the body where 

 hair grows abundantly in Europeans, and the women have 

 none on the corresponding parts. The hair on the head, 

 however, attains an extraordinary length in both sexes, 

 often reaching almost to the ground ; and this is likewise 

 the case with some of the North American tribes. In the 

 amount of hair, and in the general shape of the body, the 

 sexes of the American aborigines do not differ from each 

 other so much as with most other races of mankind. 19 This 



17 Dr. J. Barnard Davis on Oceanic Races, in ' Anthropolog. Review,' 

 A-pril, 1870, pp. 185, 191. 



18 Catlin, ' North American Indians,' 3d edit. 1842, vol. ii. p. 227. On 

 the Guaranys, see Azara, ' Voyages dans l'Amerique Merid.' torn. ii. 

 1809, p. 58 ; also Rengger, 'Saugethiere von Paraguay,' s. 3. 



19 Prof, and Mrs. Agassiz (' Journey in Brazil,' p. 530) remark that 



